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​Friday Inspiration 482​
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This movie is of course not playing where I live but I am really excited to watch it when it becomes available. I love imagining them bouncing ideas for a title around, and eventually saying, “Eh, let’s just call it ’Secret Mall Apartment.’” (video)

I don’t know what exactly to write to recommend this 45-second video of two NBA players (Kevin Love and Tristan Thompson) hugging each other before a playoff game (and after Love had just lost his father), but if you’ve had the kind of week or month or whatever where you could use something like that, here it is.​

If you have a) ever tried to move a photo within a Microsoft Word document and b) somehow not seen this yet, I believe you will feel quite validated, and probably also laugh at this seven-second masterpiece.

I’m not saying I had anything to do with how well this story turned out, but Hailey did take my How To Tell One Story online writing workshop, and wrote this story for her Substack in the process. It’s a really interesting example of weaving together two seemingly unrelated happenings into the same narrative. She said she thinks she needs to do more creative writing, and I agree.

When Zoë Rom and I started talking about the first few guests we’d like to interview on the Trailhead podcast, I immediately suggested Sabrina Little, who has a PhD in philosophy and is a 5-time national champion runner. It gave me the chance to dig into her book, The Examined Run: Why Good People Make Better Runners, which I told her in our interview reminded me a lot of Shop Class as Soulcraft, but for runners instead of people interested in building custom motorcycles. We had a great conversation about running and a bunch of other things—if you’d like to listen to it, here’s the link to listen to it on Apple Podcasts and here’s the link to listen to it on Spotify.

We also have a podcast interview with Steve Magness coming out in the next few weeks, and one of the things I brought up in our interview was this piece that he and Brad Stulberg wrote on their website. If I may try to summarize it, they’re asking, “What if adults who act a little intensely/crazy at their kids’ youth sporting events aren’t living vicariously through their kids—what if their kids’ youth sports games are the only time they really feel something?” And then, of course, how do we fix that?

I was frantically finishing up work stuff on my flight to Phoenix for my writing workshop in the Grand Canyon, and maybe it was in the back of my mind that I wouldn’t be running for 10 days or so, but I put together the below illustration for newsletter sponsor Precision Fuel & Hydration, which is mostly a joke. But I also made myself feel better about my break from running/training by reading this article on the PFH website: Detraining: Will I lose fitness by not training for a few weeks? (<-- as always, this link will get you 15% off your first order on the PFH website)

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